Stupid browser restrictions

TotalJobs claims in their "Browser Policy" that "it has become necessary to cease supporting or actively block some browser versions", including Mozilla, Firefox, and IE5. Supporting Opera but not Firefox is a big WTF on its own - both Opera and Firefox have good standards-compliant JS rendering, unlike IE. But the bigger WTF is they can't even implement a browser block properly: I was able to get to the site just fine.

I browsed a few pages ther with ff 2.0, i didn't seem to be restricted in anyway. Maybe you should send them a message that not only do their blocking not work properly, but, worse, it renders correctly on firefox. Maybe they should correct their website so it does not render properly on FF

Reminds me the WTF javascript at leforem.be ( official work agency in belgium ). "Unfortunately" the problem is now corrected by you had this stupid javascript test when searching ( while using javascript just for a dumb search form is itself a WTF ) :

Which means, indeed, incompatible browser. So : if you're on a mac, you NEED Internet Explorer to browse the website ! Not firefox, safari or anything else. If you used Windows or Linux, Firefox is Ok ( another WTF being : why you need to test the OS if you use a portable browser ? ).

By the way, "standards-compliant JS rendering" just means nothing. CSS rendering, ok Javascript as a language is well supported by browsers, but js <> browser interaction is not standardized ( XMLHttpRequest implementation varies, and no standard exists. But, unlike CSS hacks, js workarounds usually perfectly work ).

Reminds me the WTF javascript at leforem.be ( official work agency in belgium ). "Unfortunately" the problem is now corrected by you had this stupid javascript test when searching ( while using javascript just for a dumb search form is itself a WTF ) :

Which means, indeed, incompatible browser. So : if you're on a mac, you NEED Internet Explorer to browse the website ! Not firefox, safari or anything else. If you used Windows or Linux, Firefox is Ok ( another WTF being : why you need to test the OS if you use a portable browser ? ).

By the way, "standards-compliant JS rendering" just means nothing. CSS rendering, ok Javascript as a language is well supported by browsers, but js <> browser interaction is not standardized ( XMLHttpRequest implementation varies, and no standard exists. But, unlike CSS hacks, js workarounds usually perfectly work ).

A half-decent library (Prototype, MooTools, etc) will take care of your JS workarounds better than most people could do it themselves.

A half-decent library (Prototype, MooTools, etc) will take care of your JS workarounds better than most people could do it themselves.

Indeed, this is was I meant. As a programming language javascript easily allows abstraction layers, while with HTML and CSS, you're on your own when it comes to the layout ( text formating is easily abstracted by a wiki syntax, indeed )

Easy : instead of just using a img tag, create a div and set the image as parameter of a nonstandard filter stylesheet directive. Fortunately, this can be automated with javascript, and a library. Haven't tried it yet, though.

Do they give a rationale for this anywhere? Or is it that the reasoning is so moronic that they're not going to explicitly explain it?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's for ad revenue. A decent number of people who use Firefox use ad blocking, and about half of the content (as far as blockable items reported by adblocker) are from ad servers.

The WTF is that none of you understand the OR statement. "it has become necessary to cease supporting or actively block some browser versions" It does not say that Firefox is blocked, just that it is either blocked or no longer supported.

The WTF is that none of you understand the OR statement. "it has become necessary to cease supporting or actively block some browser versions" It does not say that Firefox is blocked, just that it is either blocked or no longer supported.

Bah. I read the statement provided and not the website. And stupid forum won't let me delete it now.